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Anyone who knows me knows that I’ve kind of got a thing for light and lighting.

When not hunkered down in the science mines I can be found sewing and fixing literally thousands of lights in costumes for the latest Rock Opera that I worked On “The Electric Pharoah”.

Also, my doctoral research has been looking at how metabolic responses in land plants respond to changing light conditions over geologic time. Specifically, I have used leaf waxes preserved in fossils and rocks to make interpretations of forest density and the evolution of shade

In this special halloween post, I’m excited to introduce you to a concept for a long duration manned mission to Venus, using blimps to hover in the atmosphere.

First off, there should be a more gender neutral way to say “manned mission” shouldn’t there be? Especially to Venus, as Venus is the only planet named after a female figure. Human-mission? Crewed-mission? It might take a while for

Here’s one of our favorites by Shawn Domagal-Goldman, created shortly after the Mars Science Lab successfully landed on Mars on August 6th, 2012. It totes dropped that heat shield like it’s hawt. Pretty incredible that we have this photo taken on the craft’s terrifying descent!

Okay, stay with me, guys. I’m about to say something you might not like…

How incredibly fortuitous that the announcement of the Physiology Nobel Prize happened during Mercury Retrograde!

Hear me out! This is going to take a minute…

In case you aren’t familiar with John O’Keefe and his fellow 2014 Physiology Nobel Laureates (and former post-docs) May-Britt and Edvard Moser this trio earned the prize for their discovery of cells in the brain that store and recall location and navigation information.

Back in the early 1970s John O’Keefe found that their were collections of

Hey All! I’m excited Shawn has invited me to share my thoughts on life, love, and the search for both in the Unvierse. I’m going to kick off my time here on this blog with some thoughts and reviews on the recent 2014 Nobel prizes from the astrobiology point of view. Be looking for the first one real soon!